An email from MediaPost reports: “Have we reached critical mass on consumer broadband penetration in the United States? Well, apparently JupiterResearch says we have. Jupiter reports that more than 43 percent of online households now connect to the Web via broadband, thus constituting critical mass. Jupiter projects that broadband adoption will reach nearly 80 percent of online U.S. households, or 69 million households, by 2010.”
Scoble: I was over at Alex Barnett’s blog this morning and saw he linked to a survey that said that 87% of influencers use RSS. This is PRECISELY why I’ve been telling everyone to get RSS feeds and why they should be full text. If no one else in society uses them, this is enough…
Robert Scoble takes a crack at the question of how to make RSS simple for users. I agree that we should make things simple for readers whenever possible. I have even argued in this space in the past to come up with another, more user-friendly name for RSS. But then I got to thinking. Are…
An action packed day today at the WOMBAT conference. The highlight was probably the keynote by Naked Conversations authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. This wasn’t your usual high-tech group, so there were quite a few who knew of neither and by show of hands a majority seemed to not know that Scoble had decided…
I got a note this week that one of the companies I wrote about from the DEMO conference has launched has opened up for a free public beta. Now, this isn’t the sort of product that would interest me since my interest in music is slim and I haven’t played an instrument since guitar in…
Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space. And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…
An intriguing press release crossed the wire recently: Next Generation Advertising, LLC, a new, non-traditional advertising company, has opened its doors. The company, based in the nation’s capital, will be one of the first to produce online "virtual" public policy campaigns. The firm is founded by former ABC and Fox News Producer Richard Pollock ……